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Leftist commie site fueled by hate for anyone they don’t agree. They beg for tyranny as the fake pandemic takes away freedom.

Imgur Storytime: Leaving A Literal Leftist Cult

So back in May of 2020 as things were heating up towards the tail end of the Presidential election, I was posting lots of rage filled and hateful comments and post against anyone and everyone that dared support Donald Trump. I hated Trump for lots of reasons even before the election. Mainly because I believed then and still believe now that he a sexist, bigoted, racist bully. So, because of my strong stance against Trump and the MAGA Cult and my visibility on Imgur I was recruited, yes recruited to an Imgur Leftist community on Discord. As you can see in the Imgur Chat boxes, of which I left out my and the recruiters’ usernames for privacy they were gathering as many Imgur users as possible into this Liberal/Leftist only Discord group with the sole purpose of essentially taking over Imgur for the Democratic/Left Leaning/Liberal ideology and boy was I all for it.

I did join up their little army and I participated in a community that at one point had about 50-60 (last I was a part of it) very active members that would browse User sub for anything at all they didn't agree with, share on the Discord so they can all attack in downvoting so posts don't get traction and see the front page and they would leave their hate comments, baiting OP's into saying something they could use to submit as going against the Imgur community guidelines to get anyone they didn't agree with banned. And boy did this stuff work. I mean, I alone must have gotten at least 20-30 user accounts banned and I know that with this Discord community they would get at least a few a day banned, and nothing even related to Trump/Conservatives/Republicans even sees the light of day on Imgur today, so they are very active still today and very affective.

I enjoyed being part of this Discord because I too wanted Trump gone and the Democrat's back in power. But I promised myself that I would stop the nonsense after the election if Trump lost and he did. Ha-Zah! But I didn't, I was as hateful and vengeful as ever because I was lead believe the idea that Trump is still a treat, so we essentially still needed to be jerks to anyone who agrees with Trump on Imgur. But after a while I grew tired of it. I felt I and this Discord community were becoming just as bad as the MAGA community, so I left. Wish I would have taken some screenshots while I was part of it for more evidence, but I never thought they would turn against me. But that's exactly what they did. I left a single comment, that they didn't like. A single comment that went against their leftist ideology. (I'm not a Dem/Repub/or anything) This single comment led them to then gang up against me, like they do so many others and now even with all my anti-Trump posts, I am the enemy. They downvoted all my comments and posts to hell and even worked together to get my account banned which Imgur seemed happy to do very quickly. Now I knew what it felt like to experience the hateful vitriol of this so-called liberal community that acted like it cared so much about America. And I'm just so over it. I'm done. I'm done with the hate, I'm done with the harassment, I'm done with the abuse. I've truly seen and experienced now why the divide is so great in this country. We are at each other’s throats, playing this game and its disgusting. All while Imgur seems to stand by and let it happen. Because if you really pay attention to the comments of those that attack anyone on the right, they sure don't comply with Imgur’ s community guidelines. Yell, I think that's enough story. I'm sure this will get downvoted to hell and I'll get called a liar, MAGAet, Incel, faker, etc. And they'll work to get this off imgur and yes, new account banned. Maybe they'll even try to put my original account on blast, which will only prove my point of the existence of the Leftist Discord that they unironically titled "Deep State". I still like Imgur and want to be a part of the community, but done with being a part of the political side and hate seeing that there is so much hate being spread within it.

Proof that staff promotes hard extremist propaganda. go to gallery/4QExsjX Just look how they award people for pushing certain political agendas. Then they milk these people for "emerald" and exploit the small minded hard left extremists for all the money they can get.

imgur.com is a censorship platform unless you are a supporter of, not liberal, but hard left extremist ideas, groups, cults, and followings.

There is no down the middle. They promote hate for anything that isn't a, again not liberal, nor democrat, but a HARD left extremism. They are one of the reasons America is getting very tired of it, and a big reason why people are leaving the democratic party and why we will get another horrible president like trump.

As a democrat I am disgusted by the bias extremism here. They are the blue version of hard deep south trump supporters.

They are exploiting these people for money through their emerald program.

A liberal propaganda website. You will be used, abused, and flamed for any opinion other than what you see posted on the most extreme liberal new websites. They create a breeding ground for users to pitch fork anyone with any ideas other than the extreme left.

I am a democrat and this website disgusts me with how they promote such lies and dangerous material. They are trying to program the youth to trust ideas and beings that have no fact other than a entertainment industry of "news" wrote it on their website or displayed it on TV.

Liberal/Woke site that blocks conservative and anti-establishment memes and images.

I discovered the site was funded by millionaire investment bankers.

Occasionally linked to funny animal memes on Imgur from external pages. One day decided to look around for more hilarious animals and within 30 minutes, realized I'd stumbled upon one of the most vile echo chambers I've ever had the misfortune of encountering. I'll never go back. I'm no fan of the GOP but I was stunned by the rabid hatred and blatant totalitarian leftist political bias in the vast majority of posts on this site. Most of it is not humorous, but just downright disturbing in a Maoist/Stalinist sort of way!

Used to be good at one time. Not now and some very questionable "humor" there.

Biased as hell. I remember when Imgur was a method to escape with lots of laughs. Now you can't even express your own opinions without getting flagged. I mean seriously, even as a Democrat, I can't handle all of the hate-shaming and villainizing against Republicans and conservatives. The political bias is just too much for even me to handle.

A site full of left-winged indoctrinated extremists promoting discrimination, hate speech and segregation.

This use to be a fun site years ago until the “Left” slowly creeped in and spewed there vile left wing propaganda all over it. I wouldn’t let anyone under the age of 18 on this, but if your not left wing then you probably know that already. I’d say 70% is bots pushing left wing propaganda and 20% is left wing followers/kids who have been brainwashed, the other 10% are just normal people trying to enjoy the site. For me it’s no longer tolerable. Every other post is political hatred towards anyone who challenges their beliefs.

The site supports people which insult you if you dont support their opinion. You have to be a minority and shout as loud as possible so your opinion is right.

Once i critized LBGTQ how they are trying to force people into their believes. BLM is the same, even when you show them studies and statistics they are learn-resistant. If you go into discussions with the users its nearly instantly that you get insulted as racist or other stuff (even when you just mention that you dont support BLM or LGBTQ - didnt know gays are some kind of race)

My posts got deleted because it 'offended' people.
Try to avoid commenting on this if you are middle to a bit right winged.

Just use it for some Memes and avoid posting on political stuff.

over the years, Imgur has degraded in quality, and that includes quality leadership too.

more and more i keep seeing content which breaks their own rules appearing on the FP (the Front Page, aka the most viral, what’s typically first and foremost for users that access the site without an account, i.e. likely a majority being children);

a couple or so days ago, i made an account to report one of these posts that crossed my way; i typically hope the community takes care of it, but i guess i wanted to help, since you can only report a post if you have an account (wild, right?).

the post was a four panel comic of a perverse joke, with the punchline blatantly depicting three people nude, screwing. i repeat, the post was a four panel comic of a perverse joke, with the punchline blatantly depicting three people nude, screwing.

*this breaks their first rule* regarding explicit content; literally spelled out in one of its specifications, it states as not allowing “any depiction of sexual activity, explicit or implied (drawings, print, animated, human, or otherwise)”.

you would think that it wouldn’t even need to be spelled out, the idea that a depiction of three people, completely nude, screwing, is explicit..

i thought so too, but after sending in report after report, the post stayed; even after commenting how it is rule breaking, even with other users agreeing and posting similar comments, moderators kept the post up, and inadequately “addressed” the issue by tagging it as a mature post long after it had gone viral and made the FP.

i have to note how *immensely* inadequate, too, because in their own explanation of what a mature tag means, it states again verbatim, “Sexually explicit content is never allowed on Imgur, even if it's marked as mature”.

It was mind blowing. but, given my hope for communication being able to solve rational, truthful, problems, i opened a separate support ticket, to have it be removed, for the user who posted it to be warned/handled/etc., and to also address how at least one of their moderators are at direct fault.

But, about five hours later, a “Senior Support Specialist” named Martyn, replied; and began by diverting/gaslighting from the issue at hand, immediately going into paragraphs of saying (this is a paraphrase for the sake of brevity but sincerely accurate) “oh I’m so sorry, we try to make sure people aren’t affected badly by ‘mature’ posts; I’ll mark it as so, and you won’t see it in your account anymore because of the ‘mature tag’ since you can opt out of it with an account, don’t worry”, and then went on with the same corporate cheap cologne scent style of communication by attempting to change the topic and asking personal questions as if it was resolved. It was disrespectful, see-through, and patronizing. I literally had to ask in a responding email if they even read my opened support ticket or saw the post, but I quickly realized the truth and cut off contact, saying don’t even bother in replying.

right then and there it became clear to me that Imgur isn’t worried about integrity, even when it comes to their own platform’s rules and distinctions.

And I’m confident in saying Imgur, because to quote them, all the hired moderators “have constant contact throughout the day in a private Slack channel” and must have spent some good deal of time in those five hours discussing the foolish mental gymnastics to respond with to express their willful sickening hypocrisy and ignorance.

Basically, anyone who cares about their children, about logic and common empathy and has self respect, look elsewhere for content.

myself, I cut the cord on Imgur, after the near decade of frequenting, after this experience. i had more and more of a feeling over the years of its direction. and Because I care about honesty and clarity, I hope nothing but misfortune on those liars and posers and would be glad to add my thoroughly saved documentation of this illuminating experience to the class action lawsuit that I hope one day blows up in their face.

Stay safe in this digital age of information and remember that there are real people even behind the facade of a screen, and whether it’s for the sake of ego or evil or profit or all the above, it really doesn’t matter, they proved they don’t care whether you or your loved ones are scarred or will be scarred, so have feel no shame in turning your backs on that. Peace.

I would give it no stars if I could. Why? If you go on the front page its filled with radically political far left content instead of non-political memes and images as it used to be. I even saw one featured on the front page calling for genocide of republicans and conservatives and to "kill all whites". People on here resort to projecting, name calling and downvoting others in the comments sections that don't agree with them and feed off of each others venom. If you aren't a far leftist and are sensible and not into dangerous political propaganda you should avoid this site at all costs.

Unless you enjoy far left wing politics constantly being shoved down your throat and absolutely no allowance for debate imgur is not the place for you. Very rarely do you see funny or entertaining posts. I miss the funny non-pc site that this used to be. Now the average user age is 20 and extremely ignorant and arrogant about literally everything.

The site was once upon a time a great place to discover new popular topics, content, media, people, new games, pop culture memes, etc.

Now it's populated with very toxic individuals, mostly leftists / anarchists and the like. If you say something anyone remotely disagrees with, all of them come out of the woodwork and downvote anything you say into oblivion.

The entire site is a Black Mirror exhibit, attributing all of your credibility and worth to a rating on your profile.

The tragic state of IMGUR is sadly not worth investing in beyond the occasional GIF dump to circumvent the upload limits of Discord and the like.

I used to love this site for years. It was just a random assortment of memes, feel-good posts, sometimes stories and artwork. Now I only use it to upload pictures I can share with people or post elsewhere.

The constant politics make this an unpleasant site to be on, because comments are really want made the community what it is. Now its just constant fighting.

Much like reddit, its very left-leaning as well, so even centre/moderate views get downvoted to oblivion. I found myself scrolling to the bad comments just to find someone's more level-headed, logical take on a particular topic. After a short while I realised the site is no longer worth using because the politics made it completely toxic. If I wanted a political echo chamber, I'd go elsewhere. Sad times

This site used to be very nice, always used to go there if i needed a laugh. Also used it as a host for my pictures. In a year or so it has turned into a political echochamber. I'm always ready to discuss politics, but people berate eachother for having differing views there. Absolutely do not recommend this site to anyone anymore. Simply put, it's a toxic community.

It was fun once, plenty of memes and pictures, seemed like a descent community. Then it got dark, full political rubbish, or racist and leftist rant. Stay away from this site. It’s toxic

Imgur has become an echo chamber for weaponized liberal hatred. It embodies mob mentality. The hate speech you will encounter here for having a different opinion is disgusting.should have a disclaimer only far left progressives need install.

I've had an Imgur account for about 4 years now and I must admit that in the recent years the site has become far too leftist.

What used to be a community about sharing memes, pet pictures, DIY projects and other hobbies has turned into a leftist hatespeech forum dedicated to insulting anything not supporting leftist/liberal ideas or views, sometimes even promoting violence towards groups and individuals considered "too right-wing" or conservative (not just far-right movements like the nazis).

The front page reflects it's users radicalized political views with posts promoting leftist and pro-socialist views and users praising political violence towards non-leftist groups and government officials, afflicted by radical groups such as Antifa.

The most upvoted users themselves voice their wish partake in said violence and often times share comments (with hundreds of upvotes) about wishing to see certain politicians physically harmed/killed, because they do not share similar political views.

As mentioned, the front page nowadays consists of leftist political posts. This is because the Imgur community is quick to trample the few centrist to right wing posts that get any attention. Also any comment or post questioning or disagreeing with left-wing ideas or policies is often times massively downvoted and the users ridiculed by the left leaning majority.

TL;DR:
Nowadays it's a pro-socialist political bubble that not even sensible leftists should partake in.